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DILL ARI We Worry Too Muc losppher IMll A A (huita ( '< Fret not thyself because of evil doers. Fret not thyself against him who deviseth iniquity. Trust in the Loni and do good. Wait on the Lord. Those are good sermons and then are others like them in David and Solomon. A man fan shorten hi- lift; and wear himself out hy borrowing trouble, and fretting and worrying about tin- iniquity of other people. The re is a sight of devilment going on -more than ever before, I reckon inure war, famine, pestilence, unrest and discontent all over the world, and herc in our own blessed land crime is on thc increase in our cities, and what with thc negro and thc corruption of politics and the strikes as sideshows there is enough to run a worrying man crazy. Of course wc should feel con cerned about crime and do what wa can to prevent it, but worrying docs not accomplish anything. Let U9 preach and practice and be happy Btill. ''Carpe diem," enjoy the day, saith the poet Horace. Why can't every body in this country bc as contented and law abiding as our people here in north Georgia. There arc no murders, no outrages, no lynchings, no fights herc in Bartow county. There are no divorces nor burglaries, and no steal ing of any consequence. A good old ante-bellum darkey did conic to see me the oilier day to get nie to sign his son's bond and get him out of jail. "What is he in there for?'1 said I. "Well, boss you eec do man's corn was missin' and he find de basket at Jim's house, but he dident fiuc no corn. But Jim aint 'cuscd of stcalin' do basket." "The basket is to be rho witness, I reckon," said I. "Jes, BO, boss-dat's all-and de basket can't talk and tell how it got dar." I was ruminating how easy it is for any well man to make a fuir living in this region. During harvest a good worker, white or black, gets one dollar a day, and at other times 7") cents a day, and there is a demand for labor. Uncle Sam is very old, but he gets 7? cents every day for working around in the gardens. His four girls cook and wash and each makes about two dollars a week. There is about $12 a week earned by that family and they are always happy and don't give them selves any concern about politics or social equality or Bishop Turner or Booker Washington. It is thc high strung, lazy negroes who are making all the fuss. Now, just contrast the condition of labor?is here end in other countries. In India they aro starving by the million. In tho Philippines and south Africa they are fighting and ?dying in battle or from disease and pestilence. In Germany a peasant is rich if he has two or three acres of land, and his wife and daughters carry heavy loads of vegetables on their backs to market, while thc sons are serving in the army. In Italy the i>oor work in malarial swamps or beg in Naples. In Mexico the poona get 37-1 cents a day in Mexican silver, which is worth about half as much as ours. In England the poor aro kept alive by charity and in Ireland the peasantry lose a crop about every third year and thc little children gs hungry and in rags. What is the matter with o?r people? Why don't they quit fussing-quit onvying the rich? Why not lift up their voices and thank thc Lord for his mercy and goodness unto 'us? A diligent man or woman can V\ivc for five or six months from a good garden-and besides the garden the country abounds in fruit. Peaches, apples, grapes, blackberries, dewber ries and huckleberries. I never saw thc like. From our own garden wc can have eight different vegetables every day besides berries for a des sert. It makes me proud to gather them and show them round to the family before breakfast, for it is my garden. I dressed it like old Father Adam did Eden. I'm still the boy. I am tho man with the hoc and I don't esteem it any hardship, cither. Mr. Markham needent preach his foolish-' ness to me, nor do I like the tone of that picture-a pitiful man leaning on his hoe and bemoaning his hard lot. Work, labor, toil, sweat, is the com mon lot and they are the happiest who do it. Solomon said the sleep of the .laboring man is sweet. I love to work with the hoe. I love to get all over in a sweat of perspiration. It opens the pores and gives medicine. I lovo the smiles of approval when I find a ?new blown rose and bring it to Mrs. Alp and hear her say "Isn't it beauti ful?" She reproached me gently yes .ter^day for cutting down her poke stock down by the garden fenoc. She said ehe liked to look at it when the ber ries were ripe, for it reminded her of the home of her happy childhood, hen she and her HtUe brother used S LETTER. h-That is What Phi Li'j) I Ins to Si ty. nislitlltmll. i to j iek thc horries and make rod paint ! from thom and paint dog- ami cats I and monkeys on the smokehouse and dairy. Well, there is another ono coming and I will let that grow for her sake. I want to see her painting dogs on our smokehouse They re mitid me of the time when I 'oik ran against Clay for president and every farmer democrat who came to town brought a poke stock with herries on it sticking up in his wagon or dangling between his iiorscs oars, lt used to make the Henry Clay whigs mighty mad. I remember that Hr. Jim Alex ander and Gib Wright got so mad they liked to have used bad words. They turned red in tho face and then their hair turned red and Dr. .lint's is red yet. An old linc whig never recov ered from Clay's defeat and to this day they sloratc every poke berry bush on their plantations. To-morrow is my birthday and 1 know from thc signs that my wife and thc girls arc fixing up a surprise for me-some little thing. I suspect it is a table for me to write upon, for the old o'no is rickety, but I'm attached to it. It is thc second one that 1 have worn out with my ruminations of forty years. These birthdays keep on com ing, especially in this leafy month of .lune-for my mother, my wife, my daughter, my grandson and grand daughter were all born in June. Not long ago I gave a problem to thc young people about my wife's age and scores of answers have come back from them -most of them from schoolgirls about twelve years of agc. Their solutions arc in algebra and arc neatly and ac curately done. When my wife was two weeks old I was six years. You sec I took her so young so as to train her up to my notion, but you can't al ways tell. First thing I knew she was training mc. I have long observ ed that girls arc smarter in figures than boys of their age. I know that it always strained my mind to keep up with my girl classmates. After all of the modern methods and improved conditions I do not sec any difference in thc intelligence or quicknes of school children now and those of sixty years ago. I believe that young peo ple were happier intellectually then than now, for they had loss trash to read and no harrowing things in news papers. Then wc read Shakespeare, Milton, Gray, Cowper, Scott, Byron, Goldsmith, Cooper, etc. Now it is some foolishness by some sensational writer whoso works are read aud then forgotten. I noted thc other day a moralizing writer's recipe for keeping thc spirits up without pouring thc spirits down. Ile says: "Read a fine poem every day. Look every day up on a fine painting. Hear every day some fine musie. Forget every day your enemies and remember every day your friends and the man or woman who follows this rulo is bound to be a Christian." That's good-and Dr. Johnson said that "to look upon and love a fair and virtuous woman is a liberal education." That's better. BILL ABP. Danger of Kerosene. HOUSTON, TEXAS, Juno 15.-The Post this morning prints a list of lf> women and children who have been burned to death since June 7 as the result of thc explosion of kerosene oil cans. In every case except ono thc perBons burned were attempting to kindle a fire with kerosene. The other case was peculiar. A Miss Sims, living near Seaton, struck a matoh, the head flew off and fell blazing on an oil can three feet away. An explosion followed and tho young woman was fatally burned. The state ment is made that since January no less than 145 persons have been burn ed to death in Texas as thc result of kerosene eau explosions. Free Blood Cure-An Offer Proving Faith to Sufferers. Is your blood pure ? Aro you sure of it ? Do cuts or soratches heal slow ly ? Does your skin itch or burn ? Have you pimples, eruptions, aching bones or back, eczema, old sores, boils, sorofula, rheumatism, foul broath, ca tarrh ? Are you pale ? If so purify your blood at once with B. B. B. (Bo tanic Blood Balm.) It makes the blood pure and rloh, heals every sore i and gives a clear, smooth, healthy skin. Deep-seated oases like ulcers, oanoer, eating sores, painful swellings, blood poison are quickly cured by B. B. B., made especially for' all obsti nate blood and skin troubles. B.B.B, is different from other remedies be-, cause B.B.B, drains the poison and humors ont of the blood and entire sys tem and cannot return. Intelligencer readers are advised to give B.B.B, a trial. It oures when all else fails. Thoroughly tested for 30 years. Sold at drug stores and Hill-Orr Drug Co. and Wilhite & Wilhite at $1 per large bottle, $6 large bottles (full treatment) $5. So sufferers may test it a trial bottle given away absolntoly free. Write- for it. Address Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. Writs to-day. Describe the trouble and free medical advico given. W. C. T. TI. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by tin- ladies of th?- W. C. T. U. of Anderson, IS. C. Drink mid Poverty. Halfway measures are of little value. It is unfortunately true that the work of philanthropy is done in spurts, and if the whole object is not attained at once, there ia a gradual withdrawal of interest, until all that has been done is lost. Mach swelling wave of thc ocean subsides, and it is only when thc great tide comes in that high water mark is reached. Let us hope that thc temperance sentiment of thc country is a mighty tide throwing each local effort to a higher standard and stronger position. No one will <jucs tion the ruin and misery found among habitual drunkards; but this question is raised: Is drunkenness the cause of this condition, or is the condition of poverty and want the cause of drunkenness? If we expect to im prove matters, we must get at the lirst cause. Thc most severe criticism of temperance workers comes from those who are in sympathy with thc end sought, but who think we arc going at it in thc wrong way. "Give men a chance to carn a good living," they say, "and thc drink problem will take care of itself.'' "Poverty is the source of crime." If this were true, we might with as good reason close the ice cream parlors to take away a tempta tion to extravagance as to close the saloon to relieve poverty. So let us see if we ore right. We lind with very little investiga tion that poverty and drunkenness arc not always associated. It is one of thc saddest things in thc world to see a man of ability and means surrender his manhood and become a fool through drink. Yet it is a common sight. The most of the men we see drunk arc well-to-do. In the depths of poverty they hide away in vile holes or aro soon lodged in police stations. "Nor can we in justice to a large class of worthy, though unfortunate, peo ple ascribe all poverty to drink, al though wc have found it so universal as to be almost a rule. There are wealthy drunkards and worthy poor; so it ia not poverty that makes drunk ards. Is the reverse true? It seems to have been sufficiently in evidence in Solomon's day, for he said: "The drunkard shall come to poverty." Wc have seen it in many a case in our own time, until a man's financial credit is injured if it is known that he drinks. True, there are other forms of extravagance; but intemperance is burning the candle at both ends-it takes money and it destroys ability. A man may keep himself poor by buy ing books, but he does not forfeit his manhood in the process, nor does he destroy his capacity for self-support. A man who drinks spends not only his own money, but yours and minc. His capacity for work is enhausted about tue time that his fund:* are, and he ends up in an Almshouse. That is where you and I come in. We sup port the almshouse, and aro informed by tho latest and best statistics that 42.79 per cent, of the men aro there as a direct result of the use of liquor, with 4.35 per cent, not reported either way. When poverty is due to disease, that may be cured; when it is due to mis fortune, that may be mended; but when it is due to drink, it taxes the faith of an ordinary man to ezpect much improvement. Then what shall be done about it? Somo poverty and misery we must ex pect so long as there are sickness and misfortune; but for this large percent age caused by drink there surely is a remedy. With forty-odd per cent, of extreme casos of poverty caused by drink, it seems to us a reasonable pro position for the friends of tho poor to go for thc drink business The half way measuro is to help a man out of poverty and then turn him over to the povcrtymaking machine. Let us smash tho machine, and we shall then find the problem of tho poor very mueh simplified. Social Philosophy. " Tell the average person that ho is being worked to death and he enjoys it better than a bank account. To make a story of your troubles in teresting, they should bo as varied as the buttons on a charm string. When a man is particularly rushed the loafers scent the fact like rats scent a piece of cheese, and all pour in. At this season of the year, about the only work a boy will perform will, ingly fer his sotuer is lu iura tho ioe cream freezer. An Atohison young man has been calling for several days upon a family of three sisters, and doesn't know yet whioh one he wants. Why not shake the tree? The women who offioiously show their friendship by fanning the widow at ts funeral are often her sharpest oritios when she recovers from her grief and begins to look around. Atehison Globe. I Wben the liver is active* tho hoalth is always good. De Witt's Little Kar ly Risers aro famous little pills for tho I liver and bowels. Evana Pharmacy. Death is Puiuless. heath is nearly always painless. Mari dies generally from the cessation of the heart's functioning, whatever the more remote cause may have been, thc nerve cells may have ceased to act, thc muscles may have been worn out, or thc heart may have been directly attacked by acute or chronic disease. But in any caso want of oxygen is the dctcrming factor, except in the ease of poisoning with prussic acid, in which case the whole body is dead before thc heart ceases to beat. Io every other cas<- the cessation of thc heart's action comes first, the general death of thc body afterward. Before the heart ceases to function conscious ness cca.v.'.s. liven in the most awful death known, death by burning, mor tality is rendered painless at an early stage of suffocation. It is thc first moment of experience of the heat that is so terrible; we think, in imagina tion, that we could never endure it, and wonder how martyrs faced it with such calm. But, apart from their state of spiritual ccstacy, their suffer ings were soon mercifully ended by Nature herself, which appears to set very real limits to physical torture. Thus, Livingston when seized by a lion, tells us that he felt little pain or apprehension, while Dr. Alfred Rus sell Wallace asserts that the seeming tragedies of animate nature, such as the killing of birds by beasts of prey, are not at all so awful as they appear io our imagination. We see with painful vividness the outward fact, but we do not seethe merciful anodyne furnished by nature. So it is at a deathbed. The observers see the clammy brow, the gasping for breath, the rigor mortis, sometimes thc contorted features-all painful to behold. But, with perhaps the excep tion of the difficult respiration, the dying man knows nothing of this, and before he has actually expired nature has given him a relief which the dear est friend or most skillful physician could not have imparted. There are also forms of death in which, long bo fore death arrives, the "will to live" has ceased, the patient resigns him self, and life gradually sinks to a van ishing point. This death is physi cally and psychologically painless. Spectator. Big Damages Against China. Washington, June 10. -It is said that the operations of tho boxers are rolling up a heavy bill, of damages against the Chinese government and that this will be made the subject of strong demand for indemnity by the United States as soon as order is re stored in China. It is held that under the terms of our treaty with China, not only arc American missionaries entitled to the protection of the Chi nese government, but even their na tive converts. According to"* the doc trine that we have laid down in the case of the Turkish missionary claims, thc Chinese government can be held responsible for outrages committed against American citizens, even in times of rioting, if the government troops, or its agents, fail to respond to call, or participate themselves in the rioting. This is said to be the case with the boxer disturbances. The particular treaty provision covering the oases of the American missionaries and the native converts is unique. It is contained in article 29 of the treaty of 1858 as follows: "The practice of the Christian re ligion, as professed by the Protestant and Boman Catholic churches, is re cognized as teaohing them to do good, and to do others as they would they should do unto them. Hereafter those who quietly profess and teach these doctrines shall not be harassed or persecuted on account of their faith. Any person, whether a citizen of the United States, or Chiueso con vert, who according to these tenets, peaeeably tenches and practices the principles of Christianity, shall in no case be interfered with or molested." -mm *> rn? Weald Not Suffer So Again for Fifty Times its Price. I awoke last night with severe pains in my stomach. I never felt so badly in all my life. When I came down to work this morning I felt so weak I could hardly work. I went to Miller & MoCurdy's drug store and they re commended Chamberlain's Colio, Chol era and Diarrhoen Remedy. It worked like magic ind one dose fixed me all right. It certainly is the finest thing I ever used for stomach 'trouble. I shall not be without itiumyhomo hereafter, for I should not care to en dure the sufferings of last night again for fifty times its price.-G. H. Wil son, Liveryman, Bnrgetfstown, Wash ington Co., Pa. This remedy is for sala by Hill-Orr Brag Co. ?II INI _ - "What does it mean, Tommy," the Sunday-sehool teacher' asked, "where it says they rent their clothes?" "I suppose they couldn't afford to buy them' replied Tommy. Last fall I sprained my left hip while handling some heavy boxes. The doctor I called on said at first it was a slight strain and would soon be well, but it grew worse and the doctor then said I had rhoumatiaip..It con tinued to grow -worse aod^T could hardly get around to work. I went to a drug store and thc druggist recom mended rae to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I tried it abd one-half of a 50-oent bottle cured mo entirely. I now recommend it to all my friends. It is for sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. mfSi^r^ auv degree of heat you ^IEM^WK Xjjjfcgg?-?. J?^B?F re^u^re ou a Wickless Oil Stove by ^?(j/5k. JaljSEljpSSk ?fttSkY a single turn of the valve-from a sim- ^UbS^lk ^??sikjHK mtunm me"nS nre an(l a s^ow oven to a hot top ^Sapk ^9HSOT%5^" aV^Se anc* a ^ast oveiK There's no limit to the range j?&??T^,#J BLXXXXW ?^ *ts usefu^ness- It gives absolute control of I ?*\W*?l*^ SB?B? co0^nS whether baking, boiling, broiling, roasting H la tf^oHjSjjk nffisv or simply toasting. Can you do more on any coal H S ] ' H; :?)H Wickless n?? fl I ISB^br^ak oil Stove Jff l'l mffi. ^/?IWMW?? BiMIfa is making summer housekeeping easy. It Jmmm vf . raBEfe?yfc?^ is giving cooking comfort at low cost. Jm W ^ ??Bafccim^^ Wk, ^? smo^e or sme^- Sold wherever JR W? ^ HM^^r^?i^? ll ff*n!6B^. stoves are sold. If your dealer j?SSBSr N* Ih^OrfmrZli^Mff 1 111 pjaBiB docs not have it, write to ^?n0&^ Honest Folly. A matron was one day teaching a little colored girl on her plantation how to spell. She used a pictorial primer, Bays the Memphis Soimitar, and over each word was the accompanying illustra tion. Polly glibly spelled "o x, ox," and "b o-x, box," and the teacher thought she was making "right rapid progress," perhaps even too rapid. So she put her hand over the pic ture, and then asked: "Polly, what does o-x spell?" "Ox," answered Polly, nimbly. "How do you know that it spells ox?" Polly was as honest as tho day. "Seed his tail!" she responded. SPECIAL faAJLVE OlET PIANOSANDORGANS. FOR THF. NEXT THIRTY DAY3 THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE Will sell any of the following High Grade PIANOS and ORG 4NS at pr caa as low as can be obtained from the Manufactu rera direct : KNABE, WEBER. IVEUS & POND, CROWN, WHEELOCK, LAKE SI*)E and RICHMOND. A IBO, TBE ? BOWN, ESTE Y and FABBAND ?fc TOTB? OB9ANS. Prospective purchasers will find it to their Interest to call and lnapeet my Stock or write for prices. We also represent the leading makes Sewing Machines At Rook Bottom figures. - Respect fully, THE C. A. BEEP HUSK HOUSE. BLOOD TELLS. Yes. ft it the index to health. If Toa bare bad blood you are likely to learn that Jon hare Rheumatism, one of the moa orriblo dlseasps to which inaaktnd is heir. If this disease bis Just bf gin ita work, or if you have been afflicted for years, you ibonld at once take the wonderful new cure, PiHEUMACIDE. Thousands ba've been cured. The Spring is the boat time to take a rheumatic remedy. Mature will tben aid the medicine in effec ting a pcrmauont constitutlo'jal cure. Peo file with bad blood aro subject to catarrh, ^digestion, and many other diseases. To be heatthy the blood most be pure. RHEU M ACIDE ls the Prince of blood purifiera. Sold in Anderson by EVANS PHAR MACY. Price Si 00._? D. S. VANDIVHB. E. P. VAHDIVKB. J. J. MAJOR. VANSI7ER BM. & MAJOR -DEALERS IN Fine Buggies, Phaetons,. Surreys, Wagons, Harness LaplRobes and Whips, High Grade Fertilizers, Baggingland Ties. ONE hu ad: ad fine nsw Baggies Jos, received, vomo and look through thom. They archean ties, and we will treat you not?t if yon nam pp?. Cor load .'Birdsoll" Wagons on hand the best Wagons built. Oar Whit? Hickory Wagons to arrive soon. Yours, for vehioles, VAWDrVBR!BF'.>3. & MAJOR. NOTICi~~ I have a considerable num ber off small unpaid Accounts on my books. ? am notifying each one or amount due, and unless paid I tam going to place them in officer's hand for col lection. J. S. FOWLER. FRUIT JARS ! FRUIT JARS ! Now is the time to buy your Jars before they advance in price. There beiDg a big crop of fruit all over the country, Jars will be much higher later in tbe season. I haye a big Jot of them on hand at a low price. Fruit Kettles, Fly Fans and Fly Traps, and all other summer goods. I have a lot of Decorated goods in odd pieces at a bargain. I am run ning out of stock at very low prices. AST" Bring me your Raga and Beeswax. Your patronage solicited, JOHN T. BU H.RIBS. We are Agenta for BUG-I-CIDE. NON-POISONOUS. THE GREAT INSECT DESTROYER. For Bed Bugs, Boaches, Ants, Fleas and all Insects. DIRECTIONS-Apply freely to places infested. The Price is only Twenty-Five rents. Don't be deceived. There is no Killer equal io BUGr-?- (jl?)Kr We dell it at 25c. a bottle. We ship by express or freight at your ex pense. _EVANS PHARMACY. WE WANT TO BUILD ! And so do you. Build right by getting the best material. SELL THE Best Cement, Lime, cSzic., On the market. Have sold several of the Cotton Mills their supply of Lime. This, of course, means the best and lowest price. Still Selling Groceries Wholesale, And don't break packages for anybody. This means we sell cheap. Come and see us. HOOK & LEBBETTEB, WHOLESALE GROCERS. ?QT The largest stock of TOBACCO in the up-country. All first-class brands on hand. GARDEN SEED. Buist and T^erry^s. Remember when you go to get your Seed to get fresh ones. As this is our first year in the Seed business we have no seed carried over from last year. Yours, F. B. GR AYTON & CO. Near the Post Office. The Farmers Loan 1 Trust Go. 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Every member of the Mutual Benefit ta aura Of fair and liberal treatment ander all circumstances, and no matter what happens ho win get his money's worth In insurance, for lt ls all put down in blaok and white "ia the polley.M i M. M. M?TT?80N, State Aueni, i . . X?aopIesf Bank Bntldlog, ANDERDON, B. C.